. Bulletin. Ethnology. 30 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 144 owner's designs on with a mixture of salmon roe and ocher. Areas decorated were around the "head" and "tail," on the breast, and around the flippers. The informant aLiyu painted four flicker feathers in a circle at each of these points on his floats. Four floats were attached to the line. The first, called amulta, was tied into the end of the sinew lanyard; the second, hupwonilum, halfway (20 fathoms) back on the cedar-withe line; the third, qaqeuhta, at the end of the withe line; and the fourth, hupakLim, at
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 30 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 144 owner's designs on with a mixture of salmon roe and ocher. Areas decorated were around the "head" and "tail," on the breast, and around the flippers. The informant aLiyu painted four flicker feathers in a circle at each of these points on his floats. Four floats were attached to the line. The first, called amulta, was tied into the end of the sinew lanyard; the second, hupwonilum, halfway (20 fathoms) back on the cedar-withe line; the third, qaqeuhta, at the end of the withe line; and the fourth, hupakLim, at the end of the cedar- bark line. (A Clayoquot informant gave the following names: (1), apwulte; (2), hupwonilam; (3), hupwonum; (4), qaqehte.) The floats were made fast to the line before setting out, not after the strike, as Waterman states. The first, third, and fourth, at eyes in the line, were bent into the eye and wrapped; the second was made fast to the line by two turns (really a half hitch and a turn) and wrapping (fig. 10). Floats were tied up as closely as possible to. Figure 10.—Method of bending float to standing portion of whaling harpoon line, a, Sealskin float; b, harpoon line; c, float preventer; d, hitch (a round turn and a half-hitch, shown slightly slack); e, servings to line. prevent their spinning, for this might break them loose. Additional equipment consisted of a second shaft and extra harpoon heads, a spare line, a considerable number of spare floats, and a large basket (la'ac) in which the line was kept. This basket was of heavy strips of cedar bark, reinforced with twisted strands every few inches for strength. It was very large, perhaps 4 feet across the mouth. Some- times it was attached to the end of the line after the struck whale's first rush, so that it served as a drogue, or sea anchor. It seems unlikely that this was an aboriginal technique. Several informants believed these drogues had always been used to help retard the whale's progress,
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